Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 6th Jul 2005 06:25 UTC, submitted by Timothy R. Butler
Thinking on the issue of licensing and KDE, an old hymn came to the mind of OfB's Tim Butler. "As it was in the beginning, is now, And ever shall be
" Yes, the issue of licensing has been a perennial problem for the Free/Open Source desktop and he suggests its biggest licensing issue remains: the GPL. Read more at OfB.biz
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RE[2]: Enough of this.....
by jbauer on Wed 6th Jul 2005 16:52
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Well, not everybody is a developer - the author of the article isn't - so he does NOT want to use QT to develop apps. He merely "whines" about the license isssue preventing _others_ from writing QT apps. In fact that's a legitimate 'fear' anyone who really likes KDE may have. It all depends on what you want or need. KDE could be 'the thing' for him, but because others can't use it (license) it COULD be better... well, you ge the idea.
KDE developers are not worried at all, and they know better than me. Why should I, as a user? At least they know what to use and have a direction. Gnome people still has to decide if they are going to use Java, Mono, or stick with C (which they won't get them anywhere)
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"You don't like KDE? Fine, leave it alone. You want to use QT, one of the best toolkits out there? Either write Free Software, or pay the license. It's as simple as that. Don't want to pay for writing propietary apps? Use something else, but quit whining."
Well, not everybody is a developer - the author of the article isn't - so he does NOT want to use QT to develop apps. He merely "whines" about the license isssue preventing _others_ from writing QT apps. In fact that's a legitimate 'fear' anyone who really likes KDE may have. It all depends on what you want or need. KDE could be 'the thing' for him, but because others can't use it (license) it COULD be better... well, you ge the idea.